[Verse 1]
He reads the room before a word is spoken aloud,
Carries the weight of the ones he loves like a quiet vow,
Something ancient in the way he holds the door,
A tide running deep beneath a still and steady shore,
He's built himself from scratch more times than anyone knows,
A man who tends the roots so other things can grow,

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the current inside,
All that fire underneath, all that heart he tries to hide,

[Chorus]
Alex, you were written in the long and patient rain,
Every wall you built was shelter, not a chain,
You are more than what you've carried, more than what you've done,
Alex, you were never meant to prove you were enough,

[Verse 2]
There's a blaze in him that moves before the world can keep pace,
A hunger for the real, for the true, for the unmasked face,
He loves like ceremony, like a fire that means it,
Loyal to the bone once you've earned the right to see it,
He's wrestled with the dark and he brought something back,
Every scar a testament to everything he's cracked,

[PreChorus]
They see the surface calm, they miss the depth below,
The reservoir of wisdom only hard years come to know,

[Chorus]
Alex, you were written in the long and patient rain,
Every wall you built was shelter, not a chain,
You are more than what you've carried, more than what you've done,
Alex, you were never meant to prove you were enough,

[Verse 3]
He thinks in feeling first, in memory and tone,
A mind like water finding every crack in stone,
There's a longing in him for a world without pretense,
Where depth is not a burden and emotion makes good sense,
He's been the pillar standing when the whole thing leaned,
The kind of person no one thinks to ask what he needs,

[PreChorus]
But the cosmos wrote him carefully with ink that doesn't fade,
He was born to leave a mark and not to be afraid,

[Chorus]
Alex, you were written in the long and patient rain,
Every wall you built was shelter, not a chain,
You are more than what you've carried, more than what you've done,
Alex, you were never meant to prove you were enough,

[Bridge]
Let the tide come in and let it carry what must go,
You've earned the right to rest in everything you know,
The world holds space for all of you, the tended and the wild,
The man who moved through fire and the unheld inner child,

[Outro]
You are guided, you are held, you are enough,
Alex, you were always, always enough,